Likewise, clas rank (if your school does it, or otherwise a general knowledge of GPA distribution at your school by the colleges) will also make a differance: a 3.8 reads very differently to adcoms if it puts you in the top 5% of your class vs. the top 20%.
An employee's gross pay is the amount of his wages before any deductions, including taxes and benefits. Gross pay may be determined by the amount an employee works, as in hourly pay, or at a set rate, as in a weekly salary.
Gross Pay. Gross pay represents the total amount paid by a company to its employees. Gross pay does not take into account any pretax deductions or other exemptions from income. For example, if your company pays an employee $4,000 each month, the employee's gross wages for the year equal $48,000. Typically, the gross pay is not found on the Form W-2 because of the various pretax deductions. Instead, the gross pay can be found on the employee's final pay stub for the year. W-2 Wages for Income Taxes. In box 1 of the Form W-2, your company reports the total taxable wages of the employee for IRS record keeping. When you calculate this number, take out any pretax deductions from an employee's pay because they do not count as income for federal income taxes.